Earlier this week Lo Sontag was in conversation with artists, historian, and provactore, Noelle Lorraine Williams. Please watch and more importantly listen to this important interview.
As an artist-in-resident at Newark Project for Empty Space, Williams explores a part of US (& African) History that has not frequently been explored through their exhibit Black Revolutionary Women: 250 Years of a Colony Within a Colony going on now through October 11.
It highlights Black women’s resistance, survival, and freedom-making across the Americas, reframing dominant narratives of the American Revolution as the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
“Black Revolutionary Women: 250 Years of a Colony Within a Colony asks important questions about historical memory, including who is recognized as a revolutionary or freedom fighter in American history and whose stories are remembered and honored. The exhibition recognizes the documented 914 Black women who gained their freedom during the Revolutionary War and were evacuated with British forces to Nova Scotia, situating their experiences within the wider histories of colonialism, war, and emancipation.”